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• See All 8 Prototypes for Trump's 'Big, Beautiful' Border Wall

  23-10-2017 21:32
  NBC News got a look at the eight nearly-finished prototypes of what President Donald Trump's promised border wall might look like.
  
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• Ship hit twice in apparent Houthi cruise missile attack off Yemeni coast

  14-06-2024 03:26 via foxnews.com
  
  The U.S. said Thursday that the Iranian-backed Houthis launched two anti-ship cruise missiles and struck a commercial ship in the Gulf of Aden off Yemen, setting it on fire and severely injuring one civilian mariner.U.S. Central Command said the M/V Verbena was still ablaze and the mariner was flown by a U.S. helicopter based on the USS Philippine Sea to another nearby ship for medical treatment.In a statement, Central Command said the Verbena is a Palauan-flagged, Ukrainian-owned and Polish-ope
  
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• Labour Party leader vows end to UK politics defined by 'gestures and gimmicks' if he wins power

  14-06-2024 03:10 via foxnews.com
  
  The left-of-center politician aiming to become Britain’s prime minister in three weeks’ time said Thursday he will lead a government that’s both "pro-business and pro-worker" and restore stability after years of economic and political turmoil.Labour Party leader Keir Starmer said that if he’s elected on July 4, he will end the "desperate era of gestures and gimmicks" of the Conservative Party’s turbulent tenure.Launching Labour’s election manifesto in the nort
  
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• Heatwave shutters Acropolis in Athens for second consecutive afternoon

  14-06-2024 02:36 via foxnews.com
  
  Authorities in Greece closed down the Acropolis in Athens during the afternoon on Thursday for a second day as the country swelters under unseasonably high temperatures.The Culture Ministry said the hilltop citadel, which is Greece's most popular ancient site, was closed from midday to 5 p.m. local time because of the heat.All other archaeological sites in the Greek capital were also shut during the same hours. People who had booked visits for that period could use their tickets later in the day
  
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• 1,000 days have passed since Taliban banned girls from attending school past 6th grade: UNICEF

  13-06-2024 22:03 via foxnews.com
  
  A thousand days have passed since girls in Afghanistan were banned from attending secondary schools, according to the U.N. children’s agency, which said Thursday that "no country can move forward when half its population is left behind."UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell in a statement urged Taliban authorities to allow all children to resume learning immediately, and called on the international community to support Afghan girls, who she said need it more than ever. The agency est
  
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• NATO defense ministers thrash out new security aid and training support plan for Ukraine

  13-06-2024 22:01 via foxnews.com
  
  NATO defense ministers gathered Thursday hoping to agree on a new plan to provide long-term security assistance and military training to Ukraine amid Russia's full-scale invasion, after Hungary promised not to veto the proposal as long as it’s not forced to take part.The ministers are meeting over two days at NATO headquarters in Brussels in the last high-level talks before a summit hosted by U.S. President Joe Biden in Washington on July 9-11, where the military organization’s leade
  
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• Two children dead after undergoing routine medical procedures at Canadian hospital

  13-06-2024 21:02 via foxnews.com
  
  A Canadian hospital is pausing scheduled tonsil and adenoid surgery for patients under 18 after two children who underwent the procedure died just after being discharged, officials said last week. McMaster Children’s Hospital in Hamilton, Ontario treated both patients, Hamilton Health Sciences said in a June 7 statement. One child passed away the day after their surgery, while the second died nine days after the procedure.One died in May and the other in June. TO KEEP YOUR TEETH
  
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• G-7 summit begins as leaders back deal to use interest from Russian assets for Ukraine aid

  13-06-2024 18:03 via foxnews.com
  
  Leaders of the Group of Seven major democracies started their annual summit on Thursday, many of them under a cloud at home but determined to make a difference on the world stage as they seek to help Ukraine and counter China's economic ambitions.Heading into two days of talks, diplomats said a deal had been agreed in principle on plans to issue $50 billion of loans for Ukraine using interest from Russian sovereign assets frozen after Moscow launched its invasion of its neighbor in 2022.Western
  
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• Pope Francis to meet with Biden, Zelenskyy and other world leaders at G-7 summit

  13-06-2024 16:40 via foxnews.com
  
  Pope Francis will meet with the leaders of the United States, Ukraine, France and India on the sidelines of the Group of 7 (G-7) summit in Italy's Borgo Egnazia, the Vatican said on Thursday.Francis, who in January warned against the "perverse" dangers of artificial intelligence, is due to take part in leaders' talks on the new technology on Friday.He is the first pope to take part in G-7 discussions.SPOTLIGHT ON ITALY'S MELONI AS SHE HOSTS BIDEN, G-7 LEADERS AMID ONGOING GLOBAL CRISESIssuing a
  
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• Italian lawmakers brawl in parliament: video

  13-06-2024 16:25 via foxnews.com
  
  A video has captured a wild brawl erupting in Italy’s parliament that reportedly forced a lawmaker to leave the chamber in a wheelchair. The incident happened Wednesday during a vote on a controversial government bill to give Italy’s regions greater autonomy, according to Politico. It reported that it began when Leonardo Donno of the Five Star Movement party – who is in opposition to the reform – thrust an Italian flag into the face of Roberto Calderoli, the Minister
  
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• Hezbollah bombards Israel with rockets, drones

  13-06-2024 14:05 via foxnews.com
  
  The Hezbollah terrorist group launched waves of rockets and explosive drones into Israel in an attack that caused "nonstop alerts" on Israeli warning apps Thursday.The barrage was Hezbollah's second major rocket attack in as many days. The increased aggression comes after Israeli forces eliminated a top Hezbollah commander, Sami Taleb Abdullah, in an airstrike this weekend."Hezbollah is targeting northern Israel with more rockets and drones. Nonstop alerts," wrote Fox News foreign correspondent
  
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• Europeans await China's response to new EU tariffs on Chinese cars

  13-06-2024 13:44 via foxnews.com
  
  Now that Europe has announced tariffs on China-made electric cars, the continent is bracing to see if the other shoe drops.Will China retaliate with tariffs on European cars, taking aim at German makers such as BMW and Mercedes? Would it put tariffs on agricultural products, targeting Europe's politically influential farmers? Or luxury goods from Italy and France?Analysts warn that an escalating trade war could break out, raising prices for consumers and hurting exporters and their workers on bo
  
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• Spotlight on Italy's Meloni as she hosts Biden, G-7 leaders amid ongoing global crises

  13-06-2024 13:26 via foxnews.com
  
  Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni welcomed President Biden and other world leaders at the G-7 summit opening session in Italy on Thursday against the backdrop of multiple global conflicts.The G-7, held in Italy’s southern Puglia region, brings together the leaders of Italy, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the U.S., as well as the European Union (EU).The summit comes shortly after EU elections that saw Meloni’s Brothers of Italy Party secure a resounding vic
  
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• Mother of rescued Hamas hostage says son described 'strange rules' while in captivity

  13-06-2024 13:16 via foxnews.com
  
  The mother of one of the four Hamas hostages rescued by Israeli forces during a special operation over the weekend says her son has described to her "very strange rules" the Palestinian terrorists made him live by. Evgeniia Kozlova told Reuters that her first conversation with Andrey Kozlov after he was freed was "both hard and joyful, and wonderful, and terrible because he was in a huge emotional turmoil." "He told us that they were required to follow some very strange rules, lik
  
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• Virginia state trooper hit during DUI stop after another impaired driver slams into patrol vehicle

  13-06-2024 08:08 via foxnews.com
  
  A Virginia state trooper is recovering after an impaired driver hit her patrol vehicle while she was stopped with another motorist for allegedly driving under the influence.Virginia State Police said Trooper C. Aziz responded to a sedan stopped in the northbound lane of Interstate 495 in Fairfax County at around 3 a.m. on Tuesday. The driver of the sedan was still inside the vehicle and refusing to cooperate with the trooper's requests to exit or move the car to safer location, state police
  
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• Trump-backed John Lee wins GOP primary in competitive Nevada House race

  13-06-2024 07:28 via foxnews.com
  
  Former North Las Vegas Mayor John Lee has won the Republican primary for Nevada's 4th Congressional District and will face incumbent Democrat Rep. Steven Horsford in the November general election.Lee, who is backed by former President Donald Trump, was leading his closest competitor, Air Force veteran David Flippo, when the Associated Press called the race.Trump offered his endorsement less than two weeks before the primary, but it appears to have been enough to give Lee the opportunity to flip
  
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• Secret UFO civilization, aliens could be here on Earth already: Harvard scientists

  13-06-2024 06:18 via foxnews.com
  
  Researchers at Harvard University and Montana Technological University speculated that an unidentified, technologically advanced population could be living among humans secretly on Earth.In a new paper, the team hypothesized that sightings of UFOs (or UAP, unidentified anomalous phenomena) "may reflect activities of intelligent beings concealed in stealth here on Earth (e.g., underground), and/or its near environs (e.g., the Moon), and/or even 'walking among us' (e.g., passing as humans)."T
  
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• Chris Dawson loses appeal against conviction for murdering wife more than 40 years ago

  13-06-2024 06:13 via theguardian.com
  
  Dawson’s lawyers had argued in the NSW court of criminal appeal that the 2022 verdict was unreasonableFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastChris Dawson has lost his appeal against his 2022 conviction for murdering his wife more than 40 years ago.A panel of judges in the New South Wales court of criminal appeal delivered their ruling on Thursday after Dawson’s lawyers earlier argued that the guil
  
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• Australia news live: Albanese defends Dutton over charter flight expense saying being opposition leader is ‘a hard job’

  13-06-2024 06:12 via theguardian.com
  Follow the day’s news liveExclusive: Peter Dutton took $23k private jet to News Corp event where he spoke on cost-of-living crisisGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastChalmers asked about findings that jobseekers unable to afford ‘basics of life’The treasurer Jim Chalmers was up on ABC News Breakfast just earlier, asked about new Anglicare data showing Australians on income support are “structurally unable to afford the basics of life&r
  
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• Tory welfare reform cost working-age families thousands while pensioners benefited – report

  13-06-2024 06:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Retirees or those on disability benefit are biggest annual winners, while large families are £4,600 worse off, says Resolution FoundationPensioners and people on disability benefits are the winners from radical changes to the welfare system made by the Tories over the last decade, while working-age families are losing out by thousands of pounds every year, according to a report by the Resolution Foundation.The Conservatives’ 14-year overhaul of social security has shifted spending aw
  
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• Storied Titian painting found at London bus stop after theft goes to auction

  13-06-2024 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Work by 16th century master is expected to fetch between £15m and £25m when it goes on sale at Christie’sA highly coveted painting by the Renaissance master Titian that was stolen in 1809 then again in 1995 – after which it was discovered in a plastic bag at a London bus stop – is being put up for auction in July.The Venetian painter is believed to have created Rest on the Flight into Egypt in 1508 when he was barely 20. Painted on a 2ft wide wooden panel, the paint
  
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• More than half of UK students working long hours in paid jobs

  13-06-2024 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Lack of maintenance support is creating two-tier higher education system, say expertsI once missed four weeks of one module’: the UK students working long hoursMore than half of full-time students are working long hours in jobs to support themselves at university, spending nearly two days a week in paid employment during term time, owing to the cost of living crisis.A survey of 10,000 full-time UK undergraduates by the Higher Education Policy Institute (Hepi) found a record 56% had paid em
  
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• Families vow to step up fight for answers on anniversary of Nottingham killings

  13-06-2024 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Relatives of Grace O’Malley-Kumar, Barnaby Webber and Ian Coates instruct legal team to investigate police and health trust The families of the victims of the Nottingham attacks have vowed to take their fight for accountability “to the next level” on the one-year anniversary of the killings.In a joint statement, the families of Grace O’Malley-Kumar, Barnaby Webber and Ian Coates, who were killed by Valdo Calocane in the early hours of 13 June last year, said they had inst
  
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• Conservative grassroots campaign in ‘disarray’, say insiders and opponents

  13-06-2024 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Tories struggling in some areas from chronic lack of supporters to canvass and deliver leaflets, say sourcesThe Conservative on-the-ground election campaign is descending into “disarray” amid a chronic lack of volunteers and strategy and an increasing sense of panic in formerly ultra-safe seats, insiders and opponents have told the Guardian.Some areas have struggled to muster people to knock on doors and deliver leaflets due to a combination of a shrinking and ageing membership, a ca
  
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• Conflicts drive number of forcibly displaced people to record high

  13-06-2024 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Sharp rise, equivalent to population of London, means nearly 120 million have been driven from their homesThe number of people forced out of their homes around the world last year was the equivalent of the population of London, according to the UN’s refugee agency.The latest annual assessment from the United Nations high commissioner for refugees (UNHCR) said a sharp rise in the number of people forcibly displaced during 2023 had brought the total to a record high of more than 117 million.
  
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• Two NSW police officers charged with assaulting 92-year-old man in Sydney

  13-06-2024 05:28 via theguardian.com
  
  Elderly man taken to hospital ‘with a fracture to his right elbow and significant bruising to his head and arms’ after alleged assault in Picton, NSW police sayFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastTwo New South Wales police officers have been charged with assaulting a 92-year-old man who was later admitted to hospital with a fractured elbow and significant bruising to his head and arms.The alleg
  
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• Celtics survive Mavericks' valiant comeback attempt, take commanding 3-0 NBA Finals lead

  13-06-2024 05:14 via foxnews.com
  
  The Boston Celtics survived a 22-2 Dallas Mavericks run in the fourth quarter to win Game 3 of the NBA Finals, 106-99, and take a commanding 3-0 series lead.Jaylen Brown hit a jumper with about one minute left in the game and the Celtics got a few key defensive stops on Kyrie Irving to crush Dallas’ hopes of a magnificent comeback to get back into the series.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMBrown only had six points in the first half and finished the game with 30 points, e
  
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• Kentucky man joins ISIS, planned on shooting planes, martyrdom, DOJ says

  13-06-2024 04:54 via foxnews.com
  
  A Kentucky man, who traveled to Syria to join the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) group, discussed jihad, martyrdom and shooting at planes, a federal court revealed.According to a press release from the Department of Justice, 34-year-old Mirsad Hariz Adem Ramic left the U.S. for Istanbul in 2014 alongside 2 co-conspirators.The trio quickly abandoned their proposed itineraries and flew into Gaziantep, Turkey – which is near the Turkey-Syrian border.Next, they joined ISIS, a U.S. de
  
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• Judge in Greg Lynn murder trial says jury can’t find him guilty of manslaughter as an alternate verdict

  13-06-2024 04:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Justice Michael Croucher summarises case to jurors after ex-Jetstar pilot pleaded not guilty to murdering campers Russell Hill and Carol ClayFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe jury in the trial of a former Jetstar pilot accused of murdering two elderly campers in the Victorian high country will not be able to consider an alternative charge of manslaughter, the state’s supreme court has heard.Gre
  
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• Deer crashes through bus windshield while driver calmly continues his route in Rhode Island

  13-06-2024 04:27 via foxnews.com
  
  Passengers on board a city transit bus in Rhode Island got more than they bargained for and an extra passenger on Monday when a deer crashed through the windshield as the driver calmly continued on the route.The incident, which happened shortly after 3 p.m. on Monday, was captured on video by the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (RIPTA). It shows the deer leaping from the street straight into the windshield of the bus."On Monday, a deer unexpectedly ran into a RIPTA bus traveling on Warwick
  
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